Congruences involving the U_ operator for weakly holomorphic modular forms

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Abstract: Let lambda be an integer, and f(z)=sumngg−inftya(n)qn be a weakly holomorphic modular form of weight lambda+frac12 on Gamma0(4) with integral coefficients. Let ellgeq5 be a prime. Assume that the constant term a(0) is not zero modulo ell. Further, assume that, for some positive integer m, the Fourier expansion of (f|Uellm)(z)=sumn=0inftyb(n)qn has the form [ (f|U_{ell^m})(z) equiv b(0) + sum_{i=1}^{t}sum_{n=1}^{infty} b(d_i n^2) q^{d_i n^2} pmod{ell}, ] where d1,ldots,dt are square-free positive integers, and the operator Uell on formal power series is defined by [ left( sum_{n=0}^infty a(n)q^n ight) �igg| U_ell = sum_{n=0}^infty a(ell n)q^n. ] Then, lambdaequiv0pmodfracell−12. Moreover, if ildef denotes the coefficient-wise reduction of f modulo ell, then we have [ �iggl{ lim_{m ightarrow infty} ilde{f}|U_{ell^{2m}}, lim_{m ightarrow infty} ilde{f}|U_{ell^{2m+1}} �iggr} = �iggl{ a(0) heta(z), a(0) heta^ell(z) in mathbb{F}_{ell}q �iggr}, ] where heta(z) is the Jacobi theta function defined by heta(z)=sumninmathbbZqn2. By using this result, we obtain the distribution of the Fourier coefficients of weakly holomorphic modular forms in congruence classes. This applies to the congruence properties for traces of singular moduli.


Let \(\lambda\) be an integer, and \(f\) be a weakly holomorphic modular form of weight \(\lambda + 1/2\) on \(\Gamma_0(4)\) with integral coefficients. Let \(l\geq 5\) be a prime. Assume that the constant term of \(f\) is not zero modulo \(l\). The authors study certain limit of the formally defined operator \(f|U_{l^m}\), and as a consequence obtains the distribution of the Fourier coefficients of weakly holomorphic modular forms in congruence classes.



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